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Lego Educational Search Engine

I'm in Toronto on my way to Malaysia. This item might make my workshop: the author describes a service by Google allowing people to create 'community searches'. Similarly inspired, I have gone ahead and created an edublogs Custom Search. I've seeded it with the list of sites that I use for Edu_RSS, so it's comprehensive without including trivial or off-topic results. And I've opened it up so that other people can 'volunteer' to help manage this search community. What that amounts to, I'm not sure - but if you volunteer I'll add you to the list and we can create the custom search community together, as a community. Oh, and the Lego educational search community looks like a good bet too! Rich Hoeg, eContent, January 10, 2008. [Link] [Tags: Google, RSS, Edu_RSS] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Lego Educational Search Engine

Tony Hirst, January 10, 2008

Hi Stephen

How's about pulling the links out of all the oldaily posts and adding them as specific pages to the cse? (I assume that oldaily points to sites outside the edurss set?)

I keep meaning to have a look at google linked cse approach, but there is the trade off then being able to automate cse config vs allow users to help grow it; unless there's a way of using a linked xml config file AND user contributions. (I guess you could always let people post links into a db of your own and then use that generate the cse xml file? The approach i took with the pre-cse searchfeedr was to pull the site limits in via a any old feed, which means shared tags on delicious, for example, could be used to configre the engine: http://searchfeedr.com/ )

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Re: Lego Educational Search Engine

Stephen Downes, January 11, 2008

That's a pretty interesting idea. It wouldn't be that much of a big deal to get all the links in a list. Not sure whether Google has an upper limit for the number of sites. Definitely worth playing with. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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